Bit crazy posh names please!

Writers' Corner
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I’ve got one family in my novel that likes INSANE names. (this is a direct reaction to being limited to royal names for most of my main characters). They’re very upper class English, and they’re only minor characters but it’s driving me mad.

So far I have [name]Lucasta[/name] and [name]Cecily[/name], but I need a name for the middle sister. I had [name]Arabella[/name], but I had to ditch that because I had too many A names ([name]Albert[/name], [name]Alice[/name], [name]Alexandra[/name], [name]Alfred[/name]…) I also toyed with [name]Isolde[/name], but it’s too much.

Help!

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[name]Isolde[/name] isn’t too crazy. Neither are [name]Lucasta[/name] and [name]Cecily[/name], actually. O_o

[name]Thisbe[/name]
[name]Andromeda[/name]
Ashka
[name]Reese[/name]/Rheese
[name]Loraine[/name]
[name]Francisca[/name]
Lucinna
[name]Evangelica[/name]

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What about:
Ryana/[name]Raina[/name]
[name]Harlow[/name] (too popular?)
Anastarzia (I have heard this name on a real girl)
[name]Sheridan[/name]
[name]Aisha[/name]
[name]Nerissa[/name]?

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I like [name]Thisbe[/name].
[name]Imogen[/name]
[name]Cressida[/name]
[name]Hero[/name]
[name]Hester[/name]
[name]Forsythia[/name]
[name]Alberta[/name] pity too many’s As also [name]Annis[/name] and [name]Amabel[/name]
[name]Odelia[/name]
Nymphadora
[name]Narcissa[/name]
[name]Patience[/name]
Thessily
[name]Lettice[/name]
[name]Pandora[/name]
Endora/[name]Eudora[/name]
[name]Fenella[/name]
[name]Clementine[/name]
[name]Petunia[/name]
[name]Magdala[/name]
[name]Sybilla[/name]
Filene
[name]Beatrix[/name]
[name]Guinevere[/name]
[name]Hyacinth[/name]
[name]Gertrude[/name]

I would not describe them as crazy more like kind of out there. It’s hard because a lot of names that used to be really out there have gone main stream.
Good [name]Luck[/name]!

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Boys

[name]Peregrine[/name]
[name]Sacheverell[/name]
Plantagenet
[name]Winthrop[/name]
[name]Montgomery[/name]/[name]Montague[/name]
[name]Cornelius[/name]
[name]Inigo[/name]
[name]Jasper[/name]
[name]Rufus[/name]
[name]Nigel[/name]
[name]Tarquin[/name]
[name]Valentine[/name]
[name]Tristan[/name]/[name]Tristram[/name]
[name]Rupert[/name]
Cripin
[name]Barnaby[/name]
[name]Percival[/name]
[name]Giles[/name]
[name]Basil[/name]
[name]Swithun[/name]
[name]Jolyon[/name]/[name]Julian[/name]
[name]Piers[/name]
[name]Cecil[/name]
[name]Gilbert[/name]
[name]Horatio[/name]
[name]Ludovic[/name]
[name]Randolph[/name]

Girls

[name]Lavinia[/name]
[name]Clementine[/name]
[name]Henrietta[/name]
[name]Winifred[/name]
[name]Ottoline[/name]
[name]Cordelia[/name]
[name]Araminta[/name]
[name]Thomasina[/name]
[name]Christabel[/name]
[name]Philippa[/name]
[name]Imogen[/name]
[name]Jemima[/name]
[name]Cressida[/name]
[name]Clarissa[/name]
[name]Davina[/name]
[name]Rowena[/name]
[name]Sybil[/name]
[name]Georgiana[/name]
[name]Althea[/name]
[name]Rosamund[/name]

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Well, crazy in comparison to [name]Richard[/name], [name]Caroline[/name], [name]James[/name], [name]George[/name], [name]Alice[/name] and [name]Albert[/name]. (and [name]Mary[/name], [name]David[/name], [name]Alfred[/name] and [name]Victoria[/name]) I mean. I’ve had SUCH a tight pool of names for the main characters I want to have more fun with these.

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! The As is SUCH an annoying thing, but I also had an [name]Amelia[/name], Amrit, [name]Adrian[/name] and the [name]Arabella[/name]. It was getting too repetitive.

[name]Beatrix[/name] could be cool, but a bit close to [name]Beatrice[/name], and I’m trying to avoid using names of the current British royal family. (And associates, so [name]Cressida[/name] is out as well…) [name]Fenella[/name] could be good, actually.

I might have to give them a brother called [name]Swithun[/name], because that’s amazing.

For the record, [name]Lucasta[/name] has a daughter Otillie and will also eventually have a son called [name]Montague[/name].

And I have a [name]Jemima[/name] and a [name]Rupert[/name] as well. [name]Love[/name] those names.

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Boys:
Alastor
[name]Algernon[/name]
[name]Amadeus[/name]
[name]Archibald[/name]
[name]Aurelian[/name]
Bedivere
[name]Boniface[/name]
[name]Casimir[/name]
[name]Constantine[/name]
[name]Gawain[/name]
[name]Humphrey[/name]
[name]Ignatius[/name]
[name]Lancelot[/name]
[name]Lysander[/name]
Menelaus
[name]Octavian[/name]
[name]Philemon[/name]
Pryderi
[name]Quintus[/name]
[name]Reginald[/name]
[name]Septimus[/name]
[name]Thaddeus[/name]
[name]Theseus[/name]
[name]Tiberius[/name]
[name]Torquil[/name]
[name]Xavier[/name]

Girls:

Aelia
[name]Alethea[/name]
[name]Alexandrina[/name]
[name]Allegra[/name]
[name]Amabel[/name]
[name]Antigone[/name]
[name]Aquilina[/name]
[name]Atalanta[/name]
[name]Aurelia[/name]
[name]Cassandra[/name]
[name]Cassiopeia[/name]
[name]Clementina[/name]
[name]Constantia[/name]
[name]Cornelia[/name]
Cyrene
[name]Delphina[/name]/[name]Delphine[/name]
[name]Dorothea[/name]
[name]Euphemia[/name]
[name]Feliciana[/name]
[name]Gwendoline[/name]
[name]Honoria[/name]
[name]Iphigenia[/name]
[name]Laetitia[/name]
[name]Lucretia[/name]
[name]Mariana[/name]
[name]Octavia[/name]
[name]Perpetua[/name]
[name]Philomena[/name]
[name]Rosina[/name]
[name]Serena[/name]
[name]Tullia[/name]
[name]Ursula[/name]

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Oooh, [name]Rosina[/name] made me think of [name]Rosaline[/name]. I think that’s a winner.